Background
Levi was born on January 3, 1921 in Frankfurt, Germany; the son of Ludwig and Irma (Hochschild) Levi. He came to the United States in 1938 and naturalized in 1945.
Shinfield Rd, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Levi studied at Leighton Park School.
Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Levi graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1946.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Herbert earned his Master of Science degree in 1947 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1949 from the University of Wisconsin. He worked there from 1949 to 1956.
26 Oxford St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Levi worked at the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1956 to 1991.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Levi worked at Harvard University from 1970 to 2014.
Herbert Levi and his wife, Lorna Levi.
Levi was born on January 3, 1921 in Frankfurt, Germany; the son of Ludwig and Irma (Hochschild) Levi. He came to the United States in 1938 and naturalized in 1945.
Levi studied at Leighton Park School in England. In 1946, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Connecticut. A year later he earned his Master of Science degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1949 from the University of Wisconsin.
Levi began his career as an instructor, assistant professor and associate professor of zoology at the University of Wisconsin in 1949. Seven years later he took a position of an assistant curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. In 1957, Herbert was appointed an associate curator at the same museum.
Also he served as a curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1966 to 1991, where he managed a large and taxonomically diverse collection. In 1970, Levi became a professor of biology at Harvard University and held it for twenty one year. In addition, in 1972, he was appointed Alexander Agassiz Professor of zoology. Since 1991 Herbert had been a professor emeritus of zoology at Harvard University.
Levi was a member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Zoologists, Society for the Study Evolution, Society of Systematic Zoology, American Microscopy Society, American Arachnological Society, American Ecological Society, Japanese Arachnological Society and Wilson Ornithological Society.
On June 13, 1949 Herbert Levi married Lorna Rose. They have a child.